Re: [PATCH] ethernet/sfc: mark state UNINIT after unregister

From: Edward Cree
Date: Mon Jun 15 2015 - 09:49:38 EST


On 12/06/15 19:51, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Without this change, modprobe -r sfc hits the BUG_ON() in
> efx_pci_remove_main(). Best as I can tell, this was just an oversight,
> efx->state gets set to STATE_UNINIT in the error path of
> efx_register_netdev() just after unregister_netdevice(), and the same
> should happen in efx_unregister_netdev() after its unregister_netdevice()
> call. Now I can load and unload no problem.
>
> CC: Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
> index 0c42ed9..f3eaade 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
> @@ -2448,6 +2448,7 @@ static void efx_unregister_netdev(struct efx_nic *efx)
> #endif
> device_remove_file(&efx->pci_dev->dev, &dev_attr_phy_type);
> unregister_netdev(efx->net_dev);
> + efx->state = STATE_UNINIT;
> }
> }
>
This isn't quite the right place, efx->state changes are supposed to be serialised by the RTNL lock.
Our out-of-tree driver has this in efx_pci_remove, just after the efx_disable_interrupts(efx) call and before rtnl_unlock() (see patch below). I'd suggest that's the change we should make, but I haven't tested it yet.

For reference, the "oversight" was in my e7fef9b45ae188066bb6eb3dde8310d33c2f7d5e "sfc: add sysfs entry to control MCDI tracing" which accidentally took our out-of-tree version of efx_unregister_netdev(). Before that the code was as in Jarod's patch.

-Ed

----8<----

sfc: mark state UNINIT after unregister

Without this change, modprobe -r sfc hits the BUG_ON() in
efx_pci_remove_main().

Reported-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: e7fef9b45ae188066bb6eb3dde8310d33c2f7d5e
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
index 0c42ed9..67bdaf3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
@@ -2920,6 +2920,7 @@ static void efx_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pci_dev)
efx_dissociate(efx);
dev_close(efx->net_dev);
efx_disable_interrupts(efx);
+ efx->state = STATE_UNINIT;
rtnl_unlock();

if (efx->type->sriov_fini)
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